I'll post all of my breaks of products I picked up during Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales here. For most of Black Friday, I was disappointed in the fairly poor non-sports sales. Especially sad that there weren't any cheap deals on Marvel/DC sketch products this year. But luckily I did check out Zenescope's sale on some 5finity sketch packs, and Friday evening Arrow Season 3 boxes went on sale, so picked up some of that. And after the first case of Arrow went well, decided to pick up a couple more.
List of what I picked up:
3x Arrow Season 3 cases
1x Panini Beach Boys case
2x Benchwarmer Eclectic boxes
1x Doctor Who Widevision set
2x 5finity Grimm Fairy Tales sketch packs
8x 5finity Ladies of Zenescope sketch packs
I'll add my breaks to this thread as I receive and break the products. Up first is a case of Arrow, that I was shocked to receive on Monday (initially expected to receive it today, so I feel like there was a tear in the space/time continuum or something!):
Arrow Season 3 case #1
box 1
Christina Cox as Mayor Celia Castle auto
cyan print plate for Felicity Smoak wardrobe card M03
Roy Harper wardrobe
box 2
Nick Tarabay as Digger Harkness/Captain Boomerang auto
John Diggle wardrobe
box 3
Christopher Heyerdahl as Damian Darhk's assistant auto
Felicity Smoak wardrobe
box 4
Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance auto
Al Sah-Him SP wardrobe #/49
box 5
Caity Lotz as The Canary auto
Maseo Yamashiro wardrobe
box 6
Jamey Sheridan as Robert Queen auto
Lyla Michaels & John Diggle dual wardrobe
Nyssa Al Ghul wardrobe
box 7
Adrian Glynn McMorran as Michael Amar/Murmur auto
(missing wardrobe hit)
box 8
Steven Culp as Senator Joseph Cray auto
Thea Queen wardrobe
box 9
Rila Fukushima as Tatsu Yamashiro auto
Arrow & Ra's Al Ghul dual wardrobe
Laurel Lance wardrobe
box 10
Francoise Yip as The Priestess auto
Roy Harper wardrobe
box 11
Karl Yune as Maseo Yamashiro auto
Dark Archer SP wardrobe #/99
box 12
Audrey Marie Anderson as Lyla Michaels auto
Tatsu Yamashiro wardrobe
Very happy with this case, even with the missing wardrobe card. A few really nice boxes, but also a few really bad boxes. But hitting 3 nice autos and 2 SP wardrobe, plus a nice print plate made it a good case. Hopefully the other cases will be as good!
5finity Grimm Fairy Tales sketch packs
Baba Yaga by Patrick Finch (5)
Demon by Danielle Ellison (10)
5finity Ladies of Zenescope sketch packs
Alice by Alfret Le (20)
Sela by Alfret Le (20)
Snow White by Barush Merling (20)
Glenda by Luro Hersal (20)
Little Mermaid by Bianca Thompson (8)
Mowglii by Kristin Allen (12)
Angel by Cliff Thomas (12)
Baba Yaga & Goblin Queen by Luro Hersal (20)
Very happy with the 5finity sketch packs, especially since I hit a few of the SP artists (number of sketch cards each artist did for the set is included in parenthesis). And, I hit a few by some of my favorite artists that I collect, so doubly happy!
Cryptozoic Arrow Season 3 case #2
Broke my second case, and it was a lot worse than the first one. Virtually all of the case breaks I had seen had 2-4 nice autos, plus 2 SP wardrobe, plus 2 dual wardrobe, and it seemed like a no-brainer at the Cyber Monday sale price. But this case had me second guessing myself right up till the end!
box 1:
Christopher Heyerdahl as Damien Darhk's Assistant auto
black print plate for insert card #Z5
Roy Harper wardrobe
box 2:
J.R. Ramirez as Ted Grant/Wildcat auto
Inflatable Punching Bag prop
box 3:
Audrey Marie Anderson as Lyla Michaels auto
Thea Queen wardrobe
box 4:
Karl Yune as Maseo Yamashiro auto
cyan print plate for card #05
Tatsu Yamashiro wardrobe
box 5:
Jamey Sheridan as Robert Queen auto
Maseo Yamashiro wardrobe
box 6:
Charlotte Ross as Donna Smoak auto
Aresenal wardrobe SP #/99
At this point I was starting to get worried... no big auto, no dual wardrobe, and two print plates was kinda strange, so I started to worry about there being a packing error with the case...
box 7:
Adrian Glynn McMorran as Michael Amar/Murmur auto
Al Sah-Him wardrobe SP #/49
box 8:
Nolan Gerard Funk as Cooper Seldon auto
Roy Harper wardrobe
At this point, I was resigned to this being a case with packing problems, and assumed I wouldn't hit any big autos. The SP wardrobe #/49 was nice though.
box 9:
Steven Culp as Senator Joseph Cray auto
Lyla Michaels wardrobe
box 10:
Nick E. Tarabay as Digger Harkness/Captain Boomerang auto
Donna Smoak wardrobe
box 11:
Bex Taylor-Klaus as Sin auto
Roy Harper wardrobe
Wow, not a single auto worth more than $15 in the case. And no dual wardrobe cards either. At this point I was pretty upset, and thinking about what I was going to post and/or e-mail to Cryptozoic blasting for putting a case like this out there. I was thinking to myself, there is literally only 1 auto I could hit that would keep this from being a total disaster... Felicity!
box 12:
Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak auto
Arrow & Ra's al Ghul dual wardrobe
Laurel Lance wardrobe
Whew! Saved by an amazing last box! Still slightly below average case, but with the strong box at the end plus the SP wardrobe #/49, I ended up being happy with the case.
Cryptozoic Arrow Season 3 case #3
Well, the third time was not a charm, this was the worst of the three cases. Wasn't saved by any last box magic (although the last box was one of the best in the case, and kept it from being a disaster). Still a decent case at the sale price, but it's a good thing the other two cases were better. I did at least hit 2 autos I hadn't hit in my previous cases, so that's a plus. Overall, I've hit at least 1 of every auto except for the 2 Katrina Law autos.
box 1:
Charlotte Ross as Donna Smoak auto
Felicity Smoak wardrobe
box 2:
Nick E. Tarabay as Digger Harkness/Captain Boomerang auto
John Diggle wardrobe
box 3:
Bex Taylor-Klaus as Sin auto
Lyla Michaels & John Diggle dual wardrobe
Roy Harper wardrobe
box 4:
Karl Yune as Maseo Yamashiro auto
Nyssa Al Ghul wardrobe
box 5:
Steven Culp as Senator Joseph Culp auto
(missing wardrobe card)
box 6:
Christopher Heyerdahl as Damien Darhk's assistant auto
Felicity Smoak wardrobe
box 7:
Christina Cox as Mayer Celia Castle auto
Lyla Michaels wardrobe
box 8:
J.R. Ramirez as Ted Grant/Wildcat auto
yellow print plate for card #Z6
Thea Queen wardrobe
box 9:
Amy Gumenick as Carrie Cutter/Cupid auto
Boxing Glove prop SP #/49
box 10:
Doug Jones as Jake Simmons/Deathbolt auto
Donna Smoak wardrobe
box 11:
Froncoise Yip as The Priestess auto
Wildcat Gym Pamphlet prop SP #/99
box 12:
Rila Fukushima as Tatsu Yamashiro auto
Inflatable Punching Bag prop
Well, there you go. Guess I should have stopped after the first case. But I love the show, and couldn't pass it up at the nice sale price. Definitely bummed about a second missing wardrobe card, hopefully Cryptozoic comes through on those. I just need to figure out how to make a claim for them...